Beijing: China on Tuesday asked Mongolia not to
provide a stage for the Dalai Lama to engage in "anti-China"
activities, a day after Tibet's exiled spiritual leader
arrived in the predominantly Buddhist nation.
"China is always against any country providing a stage
for the Dalai Lama's anti-China splittist activities in any
form," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told
reporters.
"We have already made our solemn representations with
the Mongolian side," Hong said.
China has accused the Dalai Lama, who fled his
Himalayan homeland for India in 1959, of instigating ten
self-immolations in ethnically Tibetan parts of Sichuan
province in southwest China. Beijing has accused him of being
a "separatist".
The Dalai Lama arrived in the Mongolian capital Ulan
Bator yesterday from Japan. He is visiting Mongolia on a
religious trip during which the 76-year-old Nobel laureate
scheduled to lead prayer meetings and give lectures.
While in Tokyo, he had criticised Beijing, saying
Tibetans faced "cultural genocide" under a strict Chinese rule
that he blamed for the wave of self-immolations.
"Some kind of policy, some kind of cultural genocide is
taking place," the Dalai Lama said yesterday.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011, 18:50